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Castle - motte

Ballynoe (Connello Upper By., Bruree ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Ballynoe, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynoe (Connello Upper By., Bruree ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Eagle Mount Mote (1924)
Coordinates
52.41963, -8.67198
SMR number
LI039-099001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on top of a broad rise. A circular earthen mound (base diam. 42.8m) with steeply inclined sides (Wth 9.25m; H 5.5m) and a circular summit (23.9m N-S; 24.7m E-W) which rises up very gently towards the centre (Westropp 1916-17, 490-1). The mound is partially covered by scrub overgrowth but where not covered by overgrowth has been poached by cattle; a concrete water trough is located at the base of mound at SSW. Near the centre of the summit is a concrete OPW plinth, and toward its E side is an OS trigonometrical station. On the W side is a fallen standing stone (LI039-09902-). The site is known locally as Knockdoha (Seoighe 2000, 211).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1973).

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/2 on 13/09/2002; 372/25 on 10/05/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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